Reasons Abound for Pro-Life (sic) Movement's Lack of Minorities

[MountainLaurel]

Interesting topic.

For Lillie Epps, one of the few African-American leaders in the anti-abortion movement, it was a telling moment.

Epps was among top anti-abortion advocates who had gathered in the Oval Office of the White House last year to watch President George W. Bush sign into law a bill banning so-called "partial-birth" abortions.

"When he signed the bill, there were some other African-Americans in the room," recalled Epps, 52. But when it came time for publicity photographs, some were ushered out, including all of the black leaders.

"That sends a message that it's really not an African-American issue," said Epps, of Care Net, an affiliation of some 900 pregnancy centers nationally. "It's something that white folks are doing, and we're not invited."

That message, those inside and outside of the movement say, may be one reason so few blacks have joined the cause. Though repeated polls show the same number of African-Americans, Hispanics and Asians are opposed to abortion as whites, they continue to make up a tiny fraction of those who actively support the anti-abortion effort.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/newswatch/story/B819D120919CC51C8625710400799358?OpenDocument&highlight=2%2C%22abortion%22

[Warpy]

1. Yeah, the reproductive slavery movement can't afford

to piss people off in the old slave states by showing black faces, can they?

I'm glad these fools are still their own worst enemy. Of course, they still push the church ladies out front in those group photos so nobody will notice they're actually overwhelmingly male.

[Hello_Kitty]

4. They're only against Caucasian women having abortions

There are oodles of White supremacist sites out that describe abortion as genocide of the Aryan race. You know those Southern Strategy voters down there concur with that.

[Tom Joad]

2. Writer of story, R. Harris, recipient of "Presidential Finger Award"...

Ron Harris, who wrote this piece for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, is no more than a hack for rightwing causes. TomJoad.org, which i happen to associated with, presented this "award" to Mr. Harris for his smear job of Jimmy Massey, a courageous 12 year marine, who got out of the military after spending months in Iraq and witnessing war crimes.
See the "award" here. http://tomjoad.org/presidentialfinger.htm

Ron Harris had no problem sanctifying the illegal, immoral war in Iraq. I am not surprised to see that he is writing this stuff for the anti-choicers.

[zbdent]

3. Could it be the fact that many lynchings of blacks

had a minister present . . . and probably blessing the rope?

(because the "black man" just happened to look the wrong way at a white woman . . .)